Thanks, all, for your input. I have tried all the keyswitches, and none of them have the shake articulation assigned to them. I watched a YouTube video about using session horns, and apparently you can get the shake articulation, if you have sight and can use the mouse. Nope, sorry, I’ll just have to invest in a more accessible sound library, and yes, one that does sound a little bit better. Someone on the MOAccess list pointed me to this: https://fablesounds.com/broadway-big-band/ Sounds amazing and it said to work with Kontakt, but so so expensive. I’ll also look into the ones Andre suggested. Many thanks!
God bless! Seth On Feb 16, 2022, at 9:50 PM, Andre Louis <onj.lo...@googlemail.com> wrote: Hi. The Session Horns key switches at c0 (or basically lowest C you can reach after octave-shifting) should help. If you don't care for Session Horns, try ProjectSAM Swing! And Swing More libraries, which may offer better Jazz sounds anyway. Personally, I think they do, and they play nicer in my opinion. I own both. Not relevant to this list however. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole Massey" <ny...@gypsyheir.com> To: "QWS list" <qws@AndreLouis.COM> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:33 AM Subject: RE: QWS List Session Horns alternative: Is there any way to drop these in using any kind of MIDI data? If so then all you need to do is save them to a file and open the file to copy and paste (in the main file) the articulation. Things like shakes, flutter tounging, doits, and even falls should be rare enough this shouldn't be too much of a headache to drop them in every once in a while. But more to the point, if there's no way to designate these articulations through MIDI, Music XML, or other notation friendly formats then it's going to be impossible to have these in the parts so horn players can play them. And anything using program change is going to be opaque to notation programs too, which would rule out the keyboards you mentioned. None of this matters if you're going to not use real horns. The other important consideration is that the shakes are different between trumpets and trombones/saxophones. Trumpet shakes tend to be more volume based than pitch based, while trombone shakes are 100% pitch, and sax shakes can involve either variation depending on what the section leader decides. So if you're going for a realistic performance the sound source needs to take the different performance methods into consideration. Note also that back when I was playing in jazz ensembles we tended to strike out these types of articulations instead of playing them, because they can clutter things up a lot. Nicole -----Original Message----- From: mai...@andrelouis.com [mailto:mai...@andrelouis.com] On Behalf Of Seth Lowman Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 8:43 PM To: QWS list <qws@AndreLouis.COM> Subject: QWS List Session Horns alternative: Hello all. Subject says it all. I am thoroughly disappointed with session horns pro, as while it is somewhat KK accessible, there appears to be no way to access the additional articulations that are supposed to be available, But that are, stupidly enough, not included in any of the presets, for example brass shakes. I did some searching online to see if I could figure out how to access these articulation, but it appears you cannot do so without using the stupid mouse, and being blind I cannot do that. Does anybody know of any workarounds for this? I need these additional articulation for some of my jazz composition, and if I cannot access them without sighted assistance then what’s the point of having this plug-in in the first place? May as well just spend the additional money on a Tyros 5 or a Montage and have access to what I need with velocity switches and control change messages. If there is no workaround, are there any other jazz horn plugins that are fully accessible? God bless! SethTo unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/qws@andrelouis.com To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/qws@andrelouis.com To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/qws@andrelouis.com
